III : HELL AND SILENCE

OTHER WORKS

THE YOKE

A tragedy from three perspectives, chronicling the early stages of the Boshin war. Kyoto, 1864. Foreigners have come and shattered a veil of centuries. Technologies and ideologies intrude upon Japan. A zealous samurai leads a crusade against the enemies of the Shogun. A lynchpin of the underworld struggles to escape the fates that formed him. A woman endures imprisonment.